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Google AdWords Specialist (Johannesburg)

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Remuneration: Negotiable depending on experience 
Location: Johannesburg
Education level: Diploma
Job level: Senior
Own transport required: Yes
Type: Permanent
Reference: #BG#GoogleAdwords
Company: Cardilogix

Job description

Our client is looking for a paid search specialist with experience in SEO and AdWords. This is a leading career opportunity with a large corporate firm.
Minimum of five years’ experience essential. 

You’ll be working for a leading corporate where your skills will be stretched and you’ll be challenged with new projects every day.

  • Manage the online planning process and provide recommendations
  • Daily management of paid search plans which could include things like budgets and accounting, execution responsibilities and bid suggestions
  • Build both near and long term PPC strategy for a variety of client accounts
  • Oversee keyword analysis; keyword list building, campaign bid management and optimisation using client preferred tracking tools and ad copy testing
  • Conduct Google Analytics metrics analysis to measure user engagement and campaign performance post click

On the SEO side, the role calls for an SEO specialist focused on developing SEO strategy for the agency’s clients.

  • Oversee SEO projects from start to finish for an assigned group of agency client
  • Work with a diverse range of clients to implement inbound marketing strategies
  • Site architecture – creating and reviewing
  • Keyword research
  • On page and off page optimisation
  • Lots of collaboration with team members and clients
  • Tracking data analysis
  • Manage weekly reporting

Major responsibilities/principle accountabilities

  • Develop paid search strategy to satisfy and exceed business goals
  • Collaborate across digital planning teams for cross-channel, integrated marketing solutions
  • Create and manage campaign operations designed around client objectives
  • Campaign budget management and bid optimisation
  • Analyse performance and build client optimisation recommendations on a regular basis.
  • Optimise paid search on an ongoing basis based upon: ROI goals, historical paid search results, cross tier and regional integration
  • Multiple device search (desktop, mobile, tablet)
  • Build and execute keyword and message test plans
  • Work with engine and technology partners to identify process efficiencies and new communication opportunities
  • Plans and implements online advertising campaigns, including directly with web sites, pay-per-click and search engine programs, as well as with agencies and partners.
  • Creates and tests tracking mechanisms prior to the launch of all online campaigns and works with analytics tools and internal resources to ensure proper reporting and implement enhancements
  • Monitors results and performance and prepares strategic analysis of campaign activities to share with team as well as department vice president and directors
  • Creates directly or indirectly (by working with colleagues and vendors) the creative elements needed for all campaigns, including banner ads, donation pages, HTML emails, ad copy, etc. 
  • Coordinates with other marketers to plan and optimise the creative themes, programs and initiatives to highlight in all online advertising and promotional activities
  • Coordinates with internal teams (including legal, operations, IT, marketing) to plan and implement the above activities, and any others, to ensure projects are launched efficiently and successfully from a legal, technical and operational perspective

Tasks include (but not limited to)

  •  Running search query reports
  • Adding in keywords (positive and negative)
  • Basic ad copy management
  • Campaign analysis
  • Uploading via editor

Requirements

– Serves as project manager and internal champion for online marketing partnerships.
– Works with department director to brainstorm new potential partnerships and with internal departments to secure approval and proper integration for new activities.

Posted on 25 Aug 14:12

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General Assistant (Sabi Sands)

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Remuneration: Basic salary 
Location: Sabi Sands
Job level: Junior
Type: Permanent
Company: Rhino Africa

Job description

Over the last 13 years, Rhino Africa has been repeatedly recognized as “Africa’s leading luxury safari company”. To ensure exclusive access for our tour operations and to become involved in one more step of our clients’ experiences, in 2010 Rhino Africa launched a specialized property division. Starting with the award winning luxury boutique hotel, MannaBay, we have begun creating luxurious properties across the continent’s key destinations. Having conquered the Cape, Rhino Africa is proud to announce the launch of our brand new development, Silvan Safari, opening in the Sabi Sands region in November 2017.

Silvan Safari Lodge is conceptualized to redefine the notion of luxury safari, by providing guests with exclusive access to an authentic African bush experience paired with exceptional service. From waking to the resounding roar of the lion as the spectacular African sun rises over the midlands, to dipping in the crystal safari pool, champagne in hand, as the silhouetted landscape disappears with the sunset; Silvan Safari pushes the boundaries on an all-inclusive escape. Surrounded by lush vegetation on the outskirts of the Kruger National Park, Silvan Safari will boast six aesthetically pleasing modern suites each equipped with a private plunge pool. The main lodge, suspended in the indigenous treetops, provides majestic panoramic views of the Manyeleti River. The lodge will also host its very own spa, encapsulating the epitome of a luxurious safari experience.

Now, Silvan Safari Lodge is searching for a well-groomed, articulate and friendly general assistant with a bubbly nature and a commitment to service excellence. This multi-functional position provides the ideal candidate with the opportunity to grow within the position, expand their skills and gain experience with duty management, guest relations, boutique management, as well as reservations. The core function of this dynamic role is to offer an excellent guest experience and maintain intricately personalized & professional service, whilst ensuring that sales targets are met. Ultimately, the General Assistant plays a direct role in maintaining the highest service standards within the lodge, thus strong communication skills, confidence and a positive and welcoming attitude is key.

Responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to

  • Receiving and hosting guests
  • Maintaining the guest database to achieve service excellence and communicating with all team members to ensure all information is collated and distributed
  • Conducting morning meetings, as required, in the absence of a manager
  • Checking rooms before guest arrivals and spot checking the villas during the day and evenings
  • Ensuring staff are keeping front of house, back of house, guest areas and service areas of Silvan Safari Lodge clean, organised and maintained
  • Communicating with staff in the front of house, back of house, kitchen and the guides to ensure that guest needs are met and that Silvan Safari Lodge runs smoothly
  • Assisting with admin tasks daily, weekly and at month end to ensure efficient handovers and month end functions take place
  • Providing sales assistance to guests with charm
  • Styling the boutique and ensuring displays are kept clean, neat and functional
  • Controlling stock and overseeing cleanliness & maintenance
  • Assisting in setting up all areas for special events and occasions
  • Reporting any issues to management

Benefits

Besides playing a key role in the expansion of Rhino Africa’s award-winning property portfolio, you can expect:

  • R6,000 monthly cost to company
  • An all-inclusive package: staff accommodation, three meals a day and Silvan workwear provided
  • Two weeks leave for every 6 weeks worked, with a complimentary shuttle service to and from public transport stops in Nelspruit
  • Ongoing training programmes and development workshops

Requirements

The ideal candidate would possess

  • Experience with reception duties in a guest relations environment
  • Exposure to sales, involving learning about and promoting products
  • A Code 8 drivers licence
  • Strong empathic, communication and conflict resolution skills
  • An aptitude for management
  • A proficiency for written and verbal communication in English
  • A conscientious approach to maintaining a neat and organised workspace
  • Computer literacy
  • Knowledge of food preparation and the terminology of food
  • A service orientated approach with a flexible, positive attitude to guests’ requests
  • A sense of style, creativity and meticulous attention to detail, combined with a passion for creating unforgettable guest experiences
  • An understanding of the etiquette involved in hosting and communicating appropriately with guests of different cultures
  • The self-motivation to work individually and collaboratively
  • A passion for service excellence and willingness to grow in this area

Please note

  • Preference will be given to candidates able to start by the 1st of November 2017
  • Preference will be given to previously disadvantaged South African candidates
  • Silvan Safari Lodge is located in Mpumalanga and applicants will be required to relocate at their own expense

Please direct any questions to jobs@silvansafari.com

Posted on 25 Aug 14:07

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CNC Programmer/Operator (Cape Town)

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Remuneration: Basic salary Market Related
Benefits: Provident Fund
Location: Cape Town, Bellville
Type: Permanent
Reference: #WFC – CNC
Company: Weylandts Home Outfitters

Job purpose

This position is responsible for the operation of the CNC machine.

Key accountabilities

  • Must operate the machine as per the operating manual in a safe manner.
  • Check that boards/furniture components received are as per the job spec.
  • Select correct programme for the corresponding component.
  • Check that work done conforms with the job spec, especially measurements.
  • All work to be signed off by team leader/supervisor.
  • Must be able to set and maintain machine as per maintenance schedules.
  • Keep your work area free from waste material.
  • When no programme exist or modifications are required, then these are to be reported to the technical centre.
  • Receive ongoing training on the programming and operation of the CNC machine.

Skills required

  • Matric (grade 12).
  • Skills training in machine operation.
  • Good knowledge of health and safety procedures.
  • Able to read route papers and understand set-outs.
  • Able to check quantity and quality of jobs before leaving workstation.
  • Computer literacy.
  • Must be able to quality control.
  • Must be prepared to physically work on the machine i.e. load and unload components for drilling.
  • Experience with Biesse Rover machine is essential.

Behavioural competencies

  • Must be hardworking and creative.
  • Fast thinking and good problem-solving abilities.
  • Good time management skill.
  • Good communication skills.
  • Be able to work under pressure.
  • Must be honest and self-motivated.
  • Must be able to work without constant supervision.
  • Must have eye for detail and be quality conscience

Note

Whilst this job description covers most aspects of the employee’s role, it is not an exhaustive list. There may be other related areas where the Company can reasonably expect the employee to become involved in. Similarly, subject to operational requirements, this description will be reviewed from time to time

If you want to be part of our highly skilled and professional team contact us now!

Please apply with your updated CV and a recent photograph.

Please consider your application as unsuccessful should you not hear back from us within 3 weeks from the date of your application.

Posted on 25 Aug 10:49

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Today, Weylandts is firmly established as the leading furniture and décor retailer in southern Africa, offering clients contemporary quality designs sourced from around the world and showcased in a beautiful environment where space and natural light enhance the inspirational merchandising.

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Counter Sales Position (Nelspruit)

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Advertising and Media Recruitment Specialists

Sandra Pope
(011) 640-7400

az.oc.tcelesemirp@ofni

www.primeselect.co.za     

Advertising, Marketing,
PR, Media and Digital

Jhb: 011 883 5404
CT: 021 422 3590 www.adtalent.co.za     

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Branch Manager: Owned & Operated Stores (Thohoyandou)

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Senior Strategist (Cape Town)

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Remuneration: negotiable Cost to company 
Location: Cape Town
Education level: Degree
Job level: Senior
Type: Permanent
Reference: #Viv2618
Company: Viv Gordon Placements

An analytical mind with a creative edge makes for a super senior strategist. If you’re reading this, you probably possess both of these attributes. This fabulous opening could be just what you’ve been looking for to turn up your career path a notch. We’re on the lookout for a senior strategist to join the dynamic team at a leading, awarded, independent and integrated advertising agency in Cape Town. This is an unparalleled opportunity to work on some diverse and truly exciting retail accounts that are leading the field in innovative advertising and marketing. This role is suited to someone direct who doesn’t hide behind overly complex models and jargon. This is for someone who gets excited about understanding what makes people tick. Got the gift of finding simplicity in the complexities? Show us!

Responsibilities

  • Nurturing and growing the Strategic Planners in the department to deliver beyond their ability and being a source of inspiration for them
  • Developing strategies that serve as a benchmark
  • Representing the planning function on the agency management team
  • Lead strategy on new business pitches
  • Maintain a sound relationship between the planning department and other departments within the agency
  • Being the conduit of the latest planning information
  • Conducting market research on changing customer needs and expectations, providing information on business trends i.e. strategies being adopted by other organisations including benchmarking and best practice, provide industry trend analyses, competitor research
  • Proactively suggest new means of developing and understanding the brand
  • Ability to clearly articulate a strategic vision in a confident and persuasive manner to clients and teams
  • Analysis and application of data in areas such as demographics, socio-economics and the market for the client’s product
  • Commissioning research as required to inform the strategy using both qualitative methods such as focus group discussions and structured interviews and quantitative methods such as demographic profiling and questionnaires;
  • Monitoring cultural and social trends, and their impact on consumers’ attitudes, behaviour and perceptions
  • Reconciling the differences between consumers’ current perception of the brand and the way in which the client wishes the brand to be perceived
  • Marketing insight, in looking for actionable insights
  • Meeting clients to learn the background to the brand.
  • Providing the creative team with a clearly defined brief that contains concise information on the product, audience and strategy
  • Presenting eventual conclusions and ideas to clients and other staff to sell your idea
  • Preparing and presenting full communication strategies in a coherent and in-depth manner to positively impact the thinking of all parties involved in the communication activities

Requirements

The successful candidate must have/be:

  • Tertiary qualification- ideally a marketing-related Degree
  • Seven+ years of proven experience in strategy of which at least 2two years should be in a leadership role, managing junior strategists within an agency
  • Proven track record of creative solutions to big and small problems
  • Proven experience in developing strategies
  • Experience in presenting strategies to client
  • A sound understanding of marketing disciplines, and knowledge of branding/brand positioning/brand valuation theory
  • An eclectic approach to problem solving, with the ability to be both rigorously analytical as well as intuitive
  • An extensive browser in all fields with an ability to draw on diverse experiences and sources of knowledge in providing insights
  • A sound understanding of qualitative and quantitative research
  • Critical thinking skills – analytical, creative and lateral

Company Description

Viv Gordon Placements (VGP) is a specialist recruitment agency in the advertising, marketing, media, public relations and publishing industries.

Posted on 25 Aug 08:19

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Promotional Products/Merchandise Procurement Co-ordinator (Johannesburg)

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Sandra Pope
(011) 640-7400

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www.primeselect.co.za     

Advertising, Marketing,
PR, Media and Digital

Jhb: 011 883 5404
CT: 021 422 3590 www.adtalent.co.za     

Recruiters & Career Coaches in Advertising, Marketing and Media Industries

Lynn: 082 802 4441 (Advertising/Digital/Media)

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Jo-Anne: 084 200 1703 (Marketing/Sales/PR)

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Project Manager (Platform Implementation) (Cape Town)

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Remuneration: To be discussed 
Location: Cape Town, CBD
Education level: Degree
Job level: Mid/Senior
Own transport required: Yes
Travel requirement: Occasional
Type: Permanent
Reference: #PM Fuse Universal
Company: Fuse Universal

Job description

Fuse is a fast growing, vibrant EdTech company with its headquarters in the buzzing heart of London’s tech hub – Shoreditch. Creators of a truly disruptive technology that is redefining the way people and organisations learn.

We’re expanding at a phenomenal pace and are now looking for a project manager to coordinate our Implementation team and ensure we successfully scope, build and launch platform implementations for our customers on time, to cost and quality.

Fuse’s team is the best of the best. Cutting edge thought leaders, extremely passionate designers, super smart techies and a dynamic management along with a games room, pool table and a roof terrace bar make Fuse a great place to work.

You’ll work with an amazing variety of clients from some of the latest, coolest start-ups to game-changing charities and the world’s biggest and best-known companies, in every industry sector you can think of.

If you want to work with brilliant, passionate people who are hungry, driven and relentless in their determination to smash expectations…. and who enjoy celebrating their success together, well, then maybe you’re for us.

You

  • You’re super organised with high energy levels. You thrive in a fast paced environment and have the ability and skills to track and manage multiple work streams concurrently. You’re comfortable with ambiguity and making assumptions as required.
  • A natural collaborator, you enjoy rich relationships and working in a tight knit team. You’re comfortable taking the lead, organising and using your influence to get the answers you need to deliver the project successfully. 
  • You have great communication skills and are comfortable communicating at every level from discussing the technical aspect of a project with designers and consultants to running customer meetings or preparing an executive summary report for a group of senior stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • At least two years project management experience in a digital environment, preferably Prince 2 Practitioner certified
  • Experience with implementing software to customers – non negotiable
  • Experience with oroject management software, ideally Clarizen
  • Experience managing a portfolio of customer projects concurrently
  • Ability to create and maintain structured project plans
  • Resource, risk and budget management skills beneficial
  • Experience working with solution architects, consultants and creative teams beneficial 
  • Experience with Learning management technology highly advantageous.
  • Good Excel skills

Reporting to the Fuse programme management office the Project Manager for Platform Implementations will coordinate and direct the activities of the Implementation team to ensure we deliver a platform implementation that realises the customer’s vision and specifications including any integrations and customisations.

Working with customers

You will be a key contact for our customers throughout the Implementation project from initiation to launch. You’ll educate them on our processes and ways of working, establish collaborative communities and connect them with key resources, unblock problems and get the answers they need. You’ll keep them updated on progress regularly and ensure they provide us with everything we need to deliver on time.

Coordinating the implementation team

Working closely with the head of implementation you’ll plan the activities of the solutions architects and user interface designers directly. You’ll also interface with other business functions including product, development and customer success and support to ensure an excellent customer experience during the implementation phase.

Managing the project portfolio

  • You will own and maintain the project plans for all current implementation projects. You will ensure actual effort is accurately recorded against the project plans and manage all exceptions, updating plans as necessary.
  • You’ll work with the sales and operational teams to identify new project requirements and be able to advise them on resource availability and indicative timescales.
  • You will create project plans, trackers, reports, registers and logs as necessary to maintain project control and provide all stakeholders with visibility on progress, risks and budgets.
  • You will run daily scrum calls with the Implementation team to review the project portfolio and ensure we’re tracking accurately against planned activity, identifying and resolving conflicts and communicating slippage and risks.
  • You will work with the PMO to capture and report resource utilisation and project performance.

Resource management and forecasting

  • On a day to day basis you’ll manage the workload across the implementation team, resolving overloads and rescheduling work as required to maintain an even loading across the available resources.
  • You’ll review the sales pipeline on a weekly basis to identify new project requirements and forecast future resource capacity needs.

Posted on 24 Aug 16:12

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Junior Motion Graphic Designers (Cape Town)

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Remuneration: R8000 – R10000 per month Basic salary 
Benefits: Monthly output-linked bonuses
Location: Cape Town, CBD
Education level: Diploma
Job level: Junior
Type: 6 months
Reference: #GD0917BC-ET
Company: Laragh Courseware

Job description

We have opportunities for junior graphic designers proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (in particular After Effects, Photoshop, and Animate) to join our team on a six-month, fixed-term contract, starting in September 2017, and ending 28 February 2018.

You would create and edit video components of e-learning content covering US legal compliance and business-related subject matter for our international client.

You need to have the ability to create illustrations for abstract concepts, as well as the skills to manipulate photo-based images, and create and edit animations in Adobe After Effects.

Company Description

You would be based full-time at our offices in the Cape Town CBD. Laragh Courseware, with a staff complement of over 50 people, has been operating in Cape Town for 21 years.

Requirements

  • You must have at least a tertiary-level graphic design diploma.
  • You must be highly proficient in After Effects, and have some experience with Photoshop and Animate (Flash).
  • A high level of general computer literacy is essential.

We will want to see samples that demonstrate your knowledge of After Effects, Photoshop and Animate, and your ability to illustrate.

Personal attributes required:

  • You should be highly efficient, and able to meet deadlines regularly and consistently.
  • You need to be comfortable in a dynamic environment where change is the constant.
  • You need to be able to work independently, with little supervision, and constructively with colleagues and managers.

Please note:

  • You must motivate your application with a covering letter, and name at least two contactable referees in your CV. (Applications without a letter of motivation will be rejected.)
  • You need to be resident in greater Cape Town, and able to start almost immediately.
  • Freelancers and work-from-home applicants cannot be considered. These are office-based positions only.

Posted on 24 Aug 15:38

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